{"id":694396,"date":"2026-06-09T22:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/694396\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T22:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:46:14","slug":"jaguars-rb-chris-rodriguez-jr-recovering-from-offseason-foot-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/694396\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars RB Chris Rodriguez Jr. recovering from offseason foot surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jaguars signed free agent running back Chris Rodriguez Jr. in March to help fill the hole left by Travis Etienne\u2019s departure for the Saints. <\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez, though, is not working with the team during the offseason program. Instead, he is working his way back from surgery on his left foot, which he injured during the conditioning program. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will be full go come training camp,\u201d coach Liam Coen said after Tuesday\u2019s minicamp workout, via Michael DiRocco of ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Bayshul Tuten and LeQuint Allen have taken the majority of reps at the position in Rodriguez\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez ran 112 times for 500 yards and six touchdowns with the Commanders in 2025. He had 86 carries for 430 yards and four scores in his first two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>He played five seasons at Kentucky, including 2021 with Coen as the Wildcats\u2019 offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jaguars signed free agent running back Chris Rodriguez Jr. in March to help fill the hole left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-694396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}